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Port details
hivex Library for reading and writing Windows Registry hive files
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Maintainer: sunpoet@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-10-06 13:54:05
Last Update: 2025-10-06 13:51:48
Commit Hash: 77ba241
License: LGPL21
WWW:
https://libguestfs.org/hivex.3.html
https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex
Description:
This is a self-contained library for reading and writing Windows Registry "hive" binary files. Unlike many other tools in this area, it doesn't use the textual .REG format for output, because parsing that is as much trouble as parsing the original binary format. Instead it makes the file available through a C API, or there is a separate program to export the hive as XML.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/hivex-1.3.24/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/hivex-1.3.24/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/hivex-1.3.24/LGPL21
  4. bin/hivexget
  5. bin/hivexml
  6. bin/hivexregedit
  7. bin/hivexsh
  8. include/hivex.h
  9. lib/libhivex.a
  10. lib/libhivex.so
  11. lib/libhivex.so.0
  12. lib/libhivex.so.0.0.0
  13. lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.42/Win/Hivex.pm
  14. lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.42/Win/Hivex/Regedit.pm
  15. lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.42/auto/Win/Hivex/Hivex.so
  16. lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3/Win::Hivex.3.gz
  17. lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3/Win::Hivex::Regedit.3.gz
  18. lib/python3.11/site-packages/hivex/__init__.py
  19. lib/python3.11/site-packages/hivex/hive_types.py
  20. lib/python3.11/site-packages/libhivexmod.cpython-311.so
  21. libdata/pkgconfig/hivex.pc
  22. share/man/man1/hivexget.1.gz
  23. share/man/man1/hivexml.1.gz
  24. share/man/man1/hivexregedit.1.gz
  25. share/man/man1/hivexsh.1.gz
  26. share/man/man3/hivex.3.gz
  27. @owner
  28. @group
  29. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • hivex>0:devel/hivex
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/devel/hivex/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install devel/hivex
  • pkg install hivex
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: hivex
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1759693104 SHA256 (hivex-1.3.24.tar.gz) = a52fa45cecc9a78adb2d28605d68261e4f1fd4514a778a5473013d2ccc8a193c SIZE (hivex-1.3.24.tar.gz) = 741279

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
hivex
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
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FreeBSD:14:latest-1.3.24--1.3.24---
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FreeBSD:15:latest--n/a-n/a---
FreeBSD:15:quarterly--n/a-n/a---
FreeBSD:16:latest-1.3.24n/a-n/a---
Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. p5-IO-Stringy>=0 : devel/p5-IO-Stringy
  2. gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 : devel/gettext-runtime
  3. gmake>=4.4.1 : devel/gmake
  4. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  5. python3.11 : lang/python311
  6. perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
Test dependencies:
  1. python3.11 : lang/python311
Runtime dependencies:
  1. p5-IO-Stringy>=0 : devel/p5-IO-Stringy
  2. python3.11 : lang/python311
  3. perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
Library dependencies:
  1. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  2. libxml2.so : textproc/libxml2
  3. libreadline.so.8 : devel/readline
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for hivex-1.3.24: PERL=on: Perl scripting language support PYTHON=on: Python bindings or support ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
devel_hivex
USES:
gettext-runtime gmake gnome iconv libtool perl5 pkgconfig readline shebangfix python
FreshPorts was unable to extract/find any pkg message
Master Sites:
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  1. https://download.libguestfs.org/hivex/
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Number of commits found: 1

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
1.3.24
06 Oct 2025 13:51:48
commit hash: 77ba24128177c9f54d2852d606e3f2451fec7d56commit hash: 77ba24128177c9f54d2852d606e3f2451fec7d56commit hash: 77ba24128177c9f54d2852d606e3f2451fec7d56commit hash: 77ba24128177c9f54d2852d606e3f2451fec7d56 files touched by this commit
Po-Chuan Hsieh (sunpoet) search for other commits by this committer
devel/hivex: Add hivex 1.3.24

This is a self-contained library for reading and writing Windows Registry "hive"
binary files.

Unlike many other tools in this area, it doesn't use the textual .REG format for
output, because parsing that is as much trouble as parsing the original binary
format. Instead it makes the file available through a C API, or there is a
separate program to export the hive as XML.

Number of commits found: 1